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It seems that we may not be too different from many other countries in this regard, and better than several.

But, but, but, aren’t the vacancies in multi-nationals who need language skills to service their overseas markets? And here’s the rub. Corporation tax policy makes it very attractive for companies to drive as much as possible of their world-wide revenues through Ireland. And, of course, these companies are inevitably going to need people with local knowledge and language skills to facilitate these overseas operations.

So the skills shortage, such as it is, may at least in part be the expression of the multi-nationals’ need to exploit further the very attractive Corporation Tax regime. Whether the importation of people to service this need constitutes a valid domestic employment policy is uncertain at best.

So the skills shortage, such as it is, may at least in part be the expression of the multi-nationals’ need to exploit further the very attractive Corporation Tax regime. Whether the importation of people to service this need constitutes a valid domestic employment policy is uncertain at best.

All multinationals need to bring in workers from overseas and most of them send Irish employees to overseas plants. The only question is whether the number of foreign workers is excessive relative to the local workforce or are they being imported as cheap labour.